Our Eyewear

Providence Optical carries a vast array of unique and sophisticated eyewear from independent eyewear companies located around the world. By attending Optical Expos internationally in France, Italy, and New York we’re able hand pick unique and limited edition frames. We also offer bespoke and custom frame production in a variety of materials. At Providence Optical you will also find a large selection of hard to find vintage frames, from subtle and sophisticated to uniquely eclectic.

Launched in 2012 and based in Williamsburg Brooklyn, Brooklyn Spectacles offers a wide array of frames all with bold designs, quality craftsmanship and a comfortable fit. The collection is inspired by the bustling atmosphere of Brooklyn neighborhood. These frames are perfect not only for wearers looking for a fresh new look and feel but for those patients looking for a hip new style. We presently offer two Brooklyn Spectacles collections: Wood Collection and Classic Collection. The Wood Collection is not made with real timber. While the frames are made of plastic, they have a finish that makes them appear to be wooden which provides the unique look of genuine wood while enjoying the comfort of the versatile synthetic material. The Classic Collection is a traditional polished or matte acetate with invisible hinge.

$ Italia Independent | Italy

Giovanni Accongiagioco, Lapo Elkann and Andrea Tessitore founded Italia Independent on 9 January 2007, at the famous Luisa Via Roma fashion store in Florence. Italia Independent is a creative and stylish brand for independent people who blend fashion and design, tradition and innovation. The brand seeks to update ‘Made in Italy’ by revisiting the classic icons. They use neon colors frames and innovative materials like rubber paint, craquelé technique or camouflage. Their lines carry the name I-Thin, I-metal for simple, geometric and minimal design.

$ Mó| Spain

Mó Eyewear is an eyewear company from Spain. They offer diversity of shapes and styles, as well as the versatility they build into each and every frame. There’s truly a look here for everyone, from the most conservative businessman to the free-spirited flower child. Many of Mo’s eyeglass frames are made using sustainable and recycled materials, for those of you who want to be eco-chic in every way imaginable.

﻿$ Kala|USA﻿

Kala frames are very high quality, made at a custom eyewear factory in California. This brand is for lover of retro fashion with vintage-inspired frames that are all handmade. Kala has been handmaking frames in the San Francisco Bay Area for over a decade amd support the ‘Made in USA’. Their prices are very competitive.

$ Barriqule| Italy

Barriqule is an Italian brand. Their glasses are made in antique oak woods which for years have contened unique wines. They have 2 collections. One is a combination of barril's wood temple and front acetate, the other one is a metal collection. They are both available at Providence Optical.

$ Projekt Samsen | Germany

PROJEKT SAMSEN is a creative bureau based in Berlin. They design 3D printed glasses with an innovative folding system. They combine new ideas and technology with timeless aesthetics and value.The name PROJEKT implies the experiment with new technologies and approaches while SAMSEN, as a family name in the third generation, stands for consistency, quality and aesthetics. PROJEKT SAMSEN concentrates more on reinterpreting, modifying and improving existing products rather than developing completely new ones. The interaction between man and object is centerpiece of the thoughtful design. As a result the products of PROJEKT SAMSEN are intuitive and fun to use.

$$Entourage of 7| USA

Founded in 2007 by Jacob Talbo, Entourage of 7 is a luxury eyewear based in Los Angeles. Manufactured in Japan and Denmark, the frames are a mix between tradition and cutting edge technology ensuring a constant flow of creativity. From classic Japanese hinges with double rivets hammered into zyl acetate frames to laser cut aluminum alloys and titanium, their styles respect both the vintage traditions and progress. Japanese craftsmanship and great materials go hand in hand creating a unique style and quality product.

﻿$$﻿﻿﻿﻿Ogi Eyewear﻿﻿ | U.S.design/ Handmade in Japan﻿

Innovation, originality, quality and value are the pillars that make up the foundation of Ogi Eyewear and are embodied into each frame and every collection. Creating durable handcrafted frames with original, sexy and sophisticated style. Through the purposeful use of color, in combination with fashion forward designs, Ogi Eyewear consistently deliver style with bold, wearable appeal. Ogi Eyewear blends character with sophistication at unparalleled affordability. By emphasizing innovation, originality, quality and value, the company has been able to expand its demographic around the globe and gain worldwide recognition.

﻿$$ Seraphin| U.S design/ Handmade in Japan﻿

Seraphin is known as the romantic retro of neoclassic luxury, rooted in the timeless shapes of a bygone era with a striking modern edge. Seraphin delivers style and substance through the use of premium materials and diligently placed details, resulting in eyewear that is unrivaled for its design and value.

﻿﻿$$ Louis| Belgium﻿﻿

Louis Belgium line is made of lightweight stainless steel frames in stunning colors. The eyewear company collaborated with Box3, another Belgium company whose work is based on color trends, predicting and combining colors is Box3’s specialty. Louis Belgium distinguishes itself not only through remarkable designs but in particular through a unique, progressive and sensitive color palette.

﻿$$ Dutz| Netherlands﻿

This award-winning and trend-setting brand from Holland boasts a unique line of well-crafted, fashion-forward frames. Made out of stainless steel, DUTZ’s lightweight frames are comfortable to wear and are hypoallergenic. Look for subtle design details in these minimalist frames for a low-key pop of style.

$$ ﻿Pro-Design| Denmark﻿

Clean Danish design is the basis of ProDesign glasses frames but they always add a twist of something unexpected. ProDesign aim to balance classic and clean with bold and bright to continuously keep classic spectacle styles updated. Originally founded in 1973, ProDesign Denmark brings the essential spirit of Danish design and lifestyle values to their unique eyewear brand. ProDesign Denmark believes the most important thing is always to create glasses that create a synergy between the face and the frame. The frame and the face must interact to obtain a beautiful and harmonic look. ProDesign glasses frames complete and enhance the lines of the face, rather than frames that demand all the attention. Its high quality and unique lightness of form combined with functional strength. Philosophy based on Danish design with sensitivity to fashion trends making an art form out of details and color. Return to simple, uncluttered shapes, sometimes a little vintage.

$$ Swissflex| Switzerland

This is our fun line! Swissflex Classic and Rainbow give you the ability to design your own frame with a snapping modular concept. Swissflex use a unique lens suspension system where pins locking the lenses to frame in the precise mounting position are melted thereby preventing twisting and ensuring stability. This streamlined system secures the frame to lenses without the need of any glue or screws. Swissflex frames are constructed of High Technology Polymer (HTP) and are available in the same palette of translucent and solid colors. You may select from two variations of temple tips-skull/straight, cable temples wild temples, and the choice of matching frame pins to your frame or in a contrasting color. There are virtually unlimited lens shapes and tints available to choose from.

$$ WOOW| France

WOOW Eyewear is a new brand from the creative minds at Face à Face. Designers Nadine Roth and Pascal Jaulent show off their playfulness with this new collection that is full of color and has a great sense of humor. The temple tips of each frame are accented with metal inserts boasting a motivational phrase intended to inspire. From "Rock Me!" to "Well Done!" written in a vintage-inspired typewriter font. The frames are characterized by a unicolor front and “sleeved” two-toned temples, the end tip bearing a little “poking” message. The tip has soft, rounded metallic insert, covered by a thin layer of resin and is inspired by the superb keys of old typewriters. The eyewear company works with volumes, shapes, materials, colors and textures to give its glasses the power to express the personality of the wearer.The range of colors, and acetate laminations, the matt and shiny finishes, transparency, details and volumes express some of Face à Face's strongest design themes. Moreover, they determine to the wearer the very high quality of the frames. Face à Face cuts its frames from the very beautiful acetates produced by Mazzuchelli, an Italian company, the world leader in acetate production. Acetate is a natural material and is therefore highly non-allergenic.

$$ MODO| USA

MODO was born in 1990 in Soho, New York, under the entrepreneurial spirit of its founder, Alessandro Lanaro. Since its beginning, MODO has evolved into a company that designs, manufactures, and distributes a successful portfolio of house, designer, and contemporary lifestyle brands – all under the common denominator of design and innovation. Today, MODO drives the eyewear industry’s effort in sustainability and social responsibility. With initiatives such as producing frames with 95% recycled content or biobased materials, planting a tree for every frame a customer purchases, or giving free spectacles to those in need, MODO is a pioneer in merging style and purpose. MODO is driven by a passion for finding the optimal balance of form and function.

$$$ Lool| Spain

Lool is a multidisciplinary creative studio based in Barcelona. Manufactured in series from sheets of steel, their frames are worked by hand, one by one in a precise technical process, combining the industrial and manual, man and machine. The design lines reflects the influence of retrofuturism infusing in this way its own unique personality to each and every pieces.

$$$ Lunettes Kollektion | Germany

Berlin-based Lunettes Kollektion sparkles with new creative energy while staying grounded in history. The design team bring with it years of experience in the fashion world pulling from Lunettes selection’s archive of iconic vintage eyewear, the designers blend their fashion-forward impulses harmoniously with classic inspirations from the annals of style. Lunettes Kollektion represents a blend of fine materials and modern design, with an added appreciation of the artisanal, the rare and the timeless. Designed with an accent on aesthetic detail, all of the glasses in Lunettes Kollektion are painstakingly produced using traditional methods. The frames start with the highest quality cellulose acetate, a hypoallergenic and renewable natural material. Based on wood and cotton fibers, cellulose acetate provides Lunettes Frames with a rich range of colors, an easy-to-wear lightness, and a reliable flexibility. They always innovate and design new shapes. All frames are produced in Italy by artisanal methods.

$$$ State Optical Co. | USA

Sate Optical is an American brand created by Jason Stanley and Marc Franchi. Their dream was to create a line of luxury eyewear not only headquartered or designed in America, but actually manufactured in the USA. Together, with the aid of experienced frame designer Blake Kuwahara, who created 12 ophthalmic and six sunglass frames for the STATE’s “Made in America” collection, which made its official debut last September. Kuwahara’s vision was brought to life in a beautiful new state-of-the art facility outside Chicago where specially trained American workers undertake at least 35 steps to produce each frame (and up to 70 steps for ultra-luxury models). Over 50% of the production is done by hand in a painstaking process that requires a full two weeks. These frames are not molded, but rather are cut from blocks of material, then the details are cut into the frame and the pieces are hand polished. At the end of each temple, you’ll find a pyramid of 21 points that represent Illinois as 21st state.

$$$ Augusto Valentini| Italy

Augusto Valentini is an Italian brand that designs and manufactures high quality eyewear since 1978. Augusto Valentini is the designer of the brand; he has brought the philosophy of being made in Italy into “Made in Italia”, a registered trademark to emphasize the Italian authenticity of the frames. He provides innovative manufacturing techniques to combine the finest materials. Augusto Valentini spectacle frames are hand-made from titanium, magnesium and acetate to craft the perfect pair of glasses frames, distinguished by a high technical precision. He mixes beautiful colors combination with unique finishing textures, which give a different look to the frames. All frames are made using nickel free materials, as well as water based paints to ensure that they are hypoallergenic. All Augusto Valentini acetate frames have a special nose shape called ICOR. This shape has been studied to be more comfortable on the nose and to distribute the weight of the frame on the whole nose avoiding the unwanted red marks that can occur when you take off the frame.

$$$ Adrian Marwitz| Germany

The Adrian Marwitz brand stands for uncompromising quality, distinctive design and a clear statement of glasses as a fashion accessory. Marwitz’s fine detail and quality makes for a sophisticated line that offers a sharp aesthetic and a comfortable fit. Their frames are made in titanium with subtle colors of matte paint finish. This enables special design options, while at the same time being very comfortable to wear. The glasses are very light and fit perfectly!Since 1918, the name Marwitz has been synonym with high-quality eyeglass frames. Adrian Marwitz is a second generation German eyewear designer , who was raised learning the ways of the eyewear crafting business. In January 2014, the urban strangers collection, available at Providence Optical, was introduced. It won several design awards, including the German Design Award in the category "Lifestyle and Fashion".

$$$ Kazuo Kawasaki | Switzerland

Doctor Kazuo Kawasaki, an award winning industrial designer, is known for glasses chosen by Sarah Palin in 2008 for her vice presidential campaign. Like everything else he touches, Kawasaki’s eyewear line has enjoyed fabulous success. Kawasaki’s eyewear combines his engineering prowess with his artistic talents and his love of sophistication and sleek lines. He developed a novel screwless, three-point tension mounted frame design and chose beta titanium for its durability and light weight. Another Kawasaki frame design we carry at the store is very minimalistic MP series, which consist of a thin frame wire placed in the groove of the lens.

$$$ Garrett Leight| USA

Garrett Leight California Optical known as GLCO is fueled by a group of young, passionate purveyors of eyewear, dedicated to creating classic design by combining perfect craftsmanship with timeless aesthetics. GLCO is laid back, sophisticated, and inspired by his California surroundings. There is a timeless aesthetic to the entire collection. It’s not over complicated, just perfectly executed classic 20th century American styles with a modern twist. Each model in his collection bears a street name of the area. The key inspiration is understated vintage.

$$$ Conservatoire International de Lunettes| Italy

Conservatoire International de Lunettes is a leading research group specializing in shapes and styles for anyone who is passionate about glasses. Its aim is to build a repertoire of iconic shapes by looking into the archives of history and taking inspiration from this excellence. High quality styles and shapes from the 1930s to the 1980s, which give life to "handcrafted" products of the past. Tradition, contemporaneity, craftsmanship and innovation are skillfully combined to give life to a unique product, which wants to “rewrite” a catalogue of rediscovered, lost glasses with memories of beautiful, often forgotten shapes. A veritable “conservatory” which reinterprets, with a contemporary feel, models that are part of a collective memory and which pay homage to those who know how to make glasses into a model of elegance with their own “signature feature”. Conservatoire is a visionary and sophisticated project that moves between timeless shapes and contemporaneity.

“Dedicated to connoisseurs of glasses, to those who recognise the quality of experience, to those who give importance to the expression of their own personality, to the authenticity of the shape that they wear. To those who surround themselves with real objects, products made with devotion. To those who believe that fashion isn’t a form of exhibition but an element of style and elegance.”

$$$ Thomsen Eyewear | Denmark

The Thomsen Eyewear brand was founded in 2003 by Morten Thomsen. With roots in the Danish and Scandinavian design tradition, Morten Thomsen value good craftsmanship and is inspired by shape, functionality, aesthetics and simplicity. "We combine classic styles with interpretations of the contemporary look to create expressive frames with clean and simple lines." - Morten Thomsen. The core of Thomsen Eyewear consists of five dimensions, which the design of every frame must satisfy: high quality, comfortable wear, lightness and strength, color character, unique design. Made in cooperation with the Danish designer & goldsmith Flemming Bo Hansen, the collection is composed of 17 diverse frames devoted to a journey through the epitome of design classics. A unique expression built in stainless steel and created in one piece.

$$$ Dita Eyewear| USA

Founded in Los Angeles in 1995 with the mission to create innovative, finely crafted eyewear with a totally unique look and feel. Each Dita frame is designed in USA and handmade in Japan by master craftsmen and takes eight months to one year to complete from conceptualization. Dita is an independent and somewhat underground brand for edgy, unique people with style of their own. The frames are based on traditional shapes but morphed in the design and technology to be unique and original. Dita eyewear is an innovative and unique juxtaposition of timeless elegance and mechanical chic dedicated to creating original artistic statements.

$$$ Blackfin| Italy

Blackfin is an Italian brand offering pure titanium spectacle frame. The Blackfin frames are made from an extremely thin sheet of Beta Titanium, which permits an unmistakable comfort deriving from the flexibility and the adaptability of the frames to the face. Each pair of glasses is designed and manufactured with great precision. They are 100% biocompatible, hypoallergenic and nickel-free frame. Made following 53 production steps: the expression of an industrial, but still artisan working method. Inspired by the “neomadeinitaly”: a tribute to the soundest Made in Italy and to its true representatives. Characterized by exceptional ergonomics and a cutting edge design. An eyewear designed for those who want to see the world from a new point of view and continue to look ahead. For this reason every Blackfin frame is entirely designed and produced in Italy. Blackfin is a concentrate of technology, volume and design in only 9,5 grams. A frame with strong personality and design so light to appear imperceptible. The Blackfin frames enhance the personality of the wearer through combinations of colors, shades and laser engravings that produce unique aesthetic effects and permit to stand out.

$$$ Undostrial| France

Founded in 2006, Undostill, which is the name of the line, is made of surgical steal. They are soft, ultra-light and flexible. These frames have no hinges so they don’t need any adjustment. They are made to fit right away! They give you both sporty and urban look. You can play with innovation and choose your own temple color with pattern or solid. The metal part of the frame comes in two colors: brushed steal and black.

$$$$ Lucas De Stael| France

In the world of eyewear, Lucas de Staël has become a repeat winner. He crafts frames out of leather, including his Minotaure line, made of cow skin, and separate collection made of goat-skin, which he dubbed “Monsieur Seguin”. The frames have hinged temples and high caliber stainless steel between layers of leather for durability. But don’t think boring leather shades like in shoe wear. Think attention-getting mod colors. His latest innovation is eyewear made of genuine stone like granite, slate and pearl schist. He has two lines using thin stone cuts, including “Petrus” made of a stone front and stone temples. The material is so thin that it actually bends. He used a metal skeleton to provide support while minimizing weight.